Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity.… — Uneñ Ameji Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do something remarkable or accept being the mere statistic that you have always been awarded. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
“my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of… — Mil Millington Copy Share Image
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
“Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life.” — CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.” — Xela Ffonrims Copy Share Image
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will Copy Share Image
“i was poised for greatness, but the poising game me a cramp so i have instead just settled for comfortable mediocrity... (Vimrod # 4904)” — Ralph Lazar Copy Share Image
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite… — William James Copy Share Image
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting. — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
